MailPoet Newsletters (Previous) <= 2.6.10 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2014-09-21 00:00

Yoshinori Matsumoto

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 2.6.11

Affected PluginMailPoet Newsletters (Previous)

Affected Version< 2.6.11

CVSS6.3Medium

CVECVE-2014-3907

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Vulnerability Overview

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the MailPoet Newsletters (wysija-newsletters) plugin before 2.6.11 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.6.11, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)) The web application does not, or cannot, sufficiently verify whether a request was intentionally provided by the user who sent the request, which could have originated from an unauthorized actor.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3907 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/557172d0-33ad-427a-b575-df529e2aaab0

CVSS Vector

6.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityLow

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